[…] are required by law to report on community, social, ethical, and reputation issues, they will, increasingly, expect their security consultants to wear them, too. This impacts on spook and ex-spook alike since, no matter how at arm’s-length their conduct, it can effect their clients’ balance sheets. The mistake the ex-spooks in the private security […]
[…] weep for SIS’s humiliation. (7)However, to use the intelligence failures exposed by the illegal invasion of Iraq, as the excuse for its trashing is a travesty. Some spook definitions First some spook definitions: ‘Intelligence’ is knowing, for example, that this country’s head of state has a daughter named Anne. ‘Analysis’ is understanding why this […]
[…] to the Arab populace would be an anathema to Israel. A bit like speaking Latin to the Reverend Iain Paisley. (14) It was another PR opportunity lost. Spook PR and Policing al-Qaida One reason why Prime Minister Blair could have added good manners to Britain’s arsenal in the fight against al-Qaida, is because the […]
[…] means of knowing whether the organisation’s role is to search for capitalism’s buried bodies or be accessories to what-ever crimes may be committed. As a former SIS spook himself, anything that the high profile Lord Browne says informs the citizen, including possible future SIS recruits. () Spook PR Meantime, in the face of unprecedented […]
See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Below is a list of spooks, both dead and alive, … Read more
British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2 Steve Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) CABLE, ERIC GRANT CMG (1938) B 25.2.1887 … Read more
[…] SECURICOR LTD 1968-75 MEMBER OF THE GAMING BOARD 1972-77 PRESIDENT GUN TRADE ASSOCIATION 1970-81 DIRECTOR AND CONSULTANT OF ‘INTERTEL’ INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE INC – THE US SUPER PRIVATE SPOOK ORGANISATION BADDERLEY, JOHN HALKETT CMG (1970) B 30.4.20, D 23.10.72 MAGDALEN COLL OXFORD MI6 (B) 1940-45 COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1945 FO 1947 3RD SEC ATHENS 1949 FO […]
[…] to up to that point, Protheroe knew who Wallace was and what the Inf Pol unit had been doing. To Newsnight we said something like ‘Protheroe’s a spook; you’ll have to watch him.’ (We were already interested in him because of his actions during the BBC’s handling of the Pencourt investigation a decade earlier.) […]
The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, […]
[…] Labour Party, 150 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1JT) With this the Labour Party has taken a significant step towards the public recognition that, as far as the spook industry is concerned, the view of this society long held by its left-wing is fundamentally correct. Coups, bugging, surveillance, wiretapping, Special Branch, moles – the first […]
